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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:25:20 -0600
From:      David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>
To:        Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP over IEEE1394?
Message-ID:  <E974F694-4F0D-11D7-8E31-0003937E39E0@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303050437020.24147-100000@buique.cin.ufpe.br>

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Interesting... I didn't even know we had Ethernet over firewire :).

Mac OS X and Windows XP both have IP over firewire either working or
in the works and somewhat usable.  The only one I can claim any  
experience
with is Mac OS X.  It's somewhat flaky though and you get unreliable  
spikes
in some basic performance tests I have done with it.

It would be a really interesting value added feature for FreeBSD 5.x
and could potentially open FBSD up even more to the "cluster" market
which is somewhere its not as proliferated as linux.

With the advent of firewire2  on the horizon it may be even more  
impressive.

I believe there is even an Oracle product for linux which can cluster  
databases
over firewire now.  [I don't know if its IP though]


Dave
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:43 AM, Rossam Souza Silva wrote:

>
> Hi, there is some plan to port NetBSD's implementation of IP over
> Firewire? I know, we have "Ethernet over Firewire", but like the Linux
> one, isn't a standard...
>
> Just curious.
>
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